Serious Acrobat Exploit causing widespread Trojan/Malware

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Just a heads up there is a serious Acrobat vulnerability that is being exploited by a Trojan/Malware.  This nasty bug will infect your machine and monitor for passwords including FTP and it is spread by a PDF throughout many infected websites and is spreading like wildfire.  Not all virus and malware scanners are detecting it yet.

This infects all platforms even Macs and Linux.

For more information:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-06.html

It is highly adviced to update your Acrobat readers (and writers).

For a description of the virus that has already taken advantage of the vulnerability:
http://blog.unmaskparasites.com/2009/05/07/gumblar-cn-exploit-12-facts-about-this-injected-script/\

[Renegade]

Lovely!

Mine was already updated to 9.1.1 when I checked this morning no clue when it updated hehe.

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I think 9 checks and updates itself often but older version especially the writers are more vulnerable.  The main problem from what I read is that Adobe knew of the buffer over-run issue for awhile now and apparently did not make a patch until it was too late and a virus was already programmed and spreading taking advantage of it.

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Also turning off javascript inside Acrobat is recommended.  You turn this off in Acrobat (reader and writer) and not your browser.  Turning off javascript in your browser really makes for an unpleasant browsing experince these days.